Amazon Prime Video : it's a subscription created by Amazon.com, allowing an access to movies and series in over 200 countries.
To that end, you must subscribe to Amazon Prime that offers 2 types of subscriptions:
- either a monthly subscription @3,99EUR (untill 31/03/18) then 5,99EUR/month,
- ...

Netflix is an American private service of videos rental, created in 1997 and launched in France 17 years later.
This TV streaming leader offers a huge number of documentaries and original movies and series.
Netflix, in numbers...
- over 100 million of users
- present in over 190 countries
-...

OCS Go is a paid channels package of Orange, created in 2013
The advantages:
- partnership with HBO
- viewing possible on any support
- offers the greatest American series (The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones...)
- release almost simultaneous of some of American series because of HBO partnershi...

Streaming market has litteraly exploded the last few years. It's now very easy to find websites that allows to watch your favorite movies and series from your computer or your smartphone...

Among all the sites present on the web, it's hard to make a choice, between legal and illegal, paid or free sites...The task is finally harder than expected...

Defintion...

Let's start with a kind reminder: streaming allows the reading of a video (or an audio) flow while playing. In other words, the reading doesn't require any downloading.

Legal sites...

In order to help you remaining in the legal way, offrelegal.fr offers a list of websites ranked by Hadopi (Hadopi is a French organisation dedicated in spreading works and protecting the rights on the Internet)

The research is dead simple as boxes just have to be ticked : you can find what you need in a few clicks only!

Legal deadlines for a first exploitation (as per French laws)...

Another information to be kept in mind: before and during a 4 month-leadtime after a theatrical release, no movie can be legaly watched on Internet. Then, from 4 up to 10 months, the movie is available in VOD, with a one-off payment. (you can read more about it HERE)

Regarding american series, we can notice a legal time-lag of the release among 6 and 9 months between the US and France.

This time-lag is due to agreement between the copirights owners and operators, as well as time for translation, dubbing...

This time-lag can be deleted in case of specific agreements between 2 partners (owner/operator). That's the case for HBO and OCS, whose agreements allow some series like TWD and Vice Principals (for example) to be watched in France 24h only after their release in the US.